Bust-girdle.



NiTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MINNIE VIDUPCOMLY, OF QUINCY, ILLINOIS..

BUST-Gianna.

SPECIFICATION forming 'part of 'Letters Patent No. 634,429, dated October 3, 1899.

.Application filed October 17, 1898. Serial No. 693,771. (No model.)

Be it known that I, MINNIE WIDUP CoMLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Quincy, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bust-Girdles, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention is an improved shoulder-brace bust-girdle.

I have aimed in the present invention to provide an article which shall serve as a shoulder-brace and will also provide an excellent and properly-shaped support for the bust.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a front elevation, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 arear View, of the improved bust-girdle, while Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic View showing the separate pieces from which one section or side of the girdle is constructed.

Referring more particularly to the iigures, it will be observed that the girdle is a short garment adapted to depend nearly to but not in any event below the waist-line, and is composed of a front section A, bust-sections B, C, and D, a back section E, and a shoulder-strap section F.

Section A, which forms one ofthe front pieces of the garment, is cut straight in front and of a. length sufficient to bring it within about an inch of the waist-line. The top is cut concave, as shown at a, to the front,

where it meets the bust-sections, and thenceA is cut downward on a curve, as shown at a', to correspond to the bust and back sections, the back section E being cut on a corresponding curve at e.

Each back section is cut from a single piece of cloth, which forms the back and part of side body of the girdle, with the-edge e cut at an incline or angle to cause the garment to narrow toward the waist to make it fitperfectly the form. It is cut high at point e2, where it joins the shoulder-strap F, and the angle or inclination of edge e when the garment is laced up causes the pressure of the garment to so fall upon the shoulder-blades as to produce a shoulder-bracing effect. This section E is cut on a curve at c3 to form the l armhole and with a downward curve e4 to where it joins the front section a. It will thus be seen that between each front and back section there is an approximately semicircular space which'is occupied bythe three bust-sections B, C, and D, which together form a perfect circle-bust in which no straight pieces are used, and which therefore fits exactly under and around the natural bust, serving to give it an effectual support.

The section B, it will be observed, is cut in the shape of an oval or ellipse pointed alike at both ends, as at b b. Section C is cut on circles with an elliptical top, and from there curves extend downward, as at c2 c2, drawing in toward edge c4, which is cut to .correspond to the edge of the back portion to which it is joined.

Section D is cut in Hat-iron or shield shape, the upper edge d forming a portion of the armhole and side body of the girdle.

The bust-sections are preferably corded before joined.

The section F is joined to the upper end of the rear section E and is adapted to extend over the shoulder and connect with the point ed top of the bust, as shown at f.

AI Iaving'thus described my invention, what I claim is- In combination, a bust-girdle comprising the two front sections, the two back sections, the bust-sections interposed between and sewed to the front and back sections, the said back sections having extensions above the front sections to provide a shoulder-brace, said extensions being formed by the straight contiguous edges of the back sections and the curved upper edges thereof which extend upan'd the shoulder-straps fastened at the rear to the end of said extensions and at the front tol the front sections, substantially as de scribed.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MINNIE WIDUP COMLY.

Witnesses:

G. L. BRADsHAw, LYMAN MCOARL.

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